The double-decker buses have climate control, free wi-fi and hybrid electric-diesel engines to save fuel.
Airbus, the world's second-largest commercial planemaker, said the latest orders for the double-decker A380 jumbo takes its firm order book to 116 this year.
China is one of Airbus' most important customers, particularly for narrow-body planes, while the Middle East flies the flag for Airbus' wide-body jets like the double-decker A380.
The water is full of darting and jumping fish, and the mangrove roots -- some the height of a double-decker bus -- tower over the boat.
Once out in traffic, I appreciated how the electric motor assistance gave me the necessary speed to keep up with the red double-decker buses.
He was quoted Tuesday as saying that a longer version of the Airbus double-decker A380 would be a very big hit with his airline, especially with high fuel prices currently causing a major headache.
The investment includes 10 double-decker sleeper coaches for megabus.com in the UK, providing 55 daytime seats and 41 beds at night.
Baghdad also now boasts what Iraqis claim is the Middle East's tallest tower (erected in competition with Kuwait), the region's only double-decker bridge and a complete reconstruction of the world's oldest palace at nearby Babylon.
The Megabus is a 77-seat, double-decker affair, and the lower bunk has several spots facing tables.
The cinema screen "as high as four double-decker buses" in the building opened in 2002.
She said he left school aged 15 due to his difficult behaviour and worked as a roofer with his father, Nick, but jumped from scaffolding onto the roof of a double-decker bus "for no reason".
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So the city pulled that design off the streets in 2011, leaving regular double-decker buses in service and shipping the bendys off to other cities in the United Kingdom that have more spacious streets.
Imagine catching all the sights during a tour of London on a double-decker bus or exploring the streets of Rio de Janeiro during Carnival.
Jeremy Morris found in the 1950s that London's double-decker bus drivers were more likely to die from cardiovascular disease than the bus conductors, and that government clerks were more likely to die than mail carriers.
One of his first, and most unpopular, acts was to scrap the much-loved but decrepit fleet of Routemaster double-decker buses, dating from the 1950s.
He flipped on the television, to catch up on some news, when he first saw them: a group of rag-tag teenage rebels who had abandoned the city for the country, living out of double-decker buses.
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There are also less obvious tourist sites, such as the so-called 'double decker' highway, packed with rush-hour traffic.
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Deputy Gollop, who is also the States' disability champion, said double-decker buses would make it easier for some disabled passengers to travel because they offered more room on the lower deck for wheelchairs.
Guernsey had a double-decker bus service in the 1980s, but officials said there had not been sufficient demand to revive it.
The Airbus A380 was once the bright hope of EADS despite its controversial double-decker design, but between 2005 and 2006 manufacturing problems and delivery delays saw customers like Federal Express and United Parcel Service angrily cancel their orders.
Admittedly, London's dwindling fleet of old-fashioned double-decker red Routemaster buses, like the black taxis and old red telephone boxes, are a distinctive and attractive feature of the city's landscape.
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There are 44 lifts, some of which are double-decker, which have no buttons on the inside.
The Swiss Federal Railways has improved efficiency in recent years too, by using double-decker trains and increasing its trip frequency.
And then comes a green double-decker bus which lists its destination as "nowhere" - just like the one on the sleeve for The Sex Pistols' Pretty Vacant.
The service will run double deckers on the main airport route, with the bulk of the remaining fleet made up of slimline single-decker buses.
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